Effective Ways To Train Your Brain

Have you ever noticed that the older you become the
harder it is to do the work you don't know? It is
scientificaly proved that our brain is so lazy that it
automatically chooses things it already knows. Our brain
tries to lower the energy we waste, so it creates
"programms" we do automatically every day. When you
read your fauvorite newspaper or work at the job you know
well, or speak with your native language - your brain is
degradating. A biologist Richard Semon named this
programms our brain creates "engrams". They exist in the
form of roads in our brain. We create them as we start to
do some things over and over again.

The longer we repeat someting - the less energy our brain
spends on it. And the bad thing about it is that way brain
loses it's flexibility. Imagine your brain as a concrete that
will get rock-hard if you won't mix it. If you don't want it to
happen, and you don't, doing these things will help you:

1. Get out of you comfort zone

If you feel uncomfortable when something familiar, like
your favourite site changes, you should notice that every
time and get profit of it. If your favourite ice-cream is out
of stock - don't be mad about it! When that happens think
about why not to set yourself a goal to taste every other
single ice-cream flavor in that shop?

2. Do not re-read books

We all have that one favourite book, that we can read over
and over again. Well, guess what? You shouldn't do it.
Also don't watch movies you've already seen. Yes, you
feel good when you notice the details you didn't notice
before, but also you take away a chance to show you
something new from other books and movies.

3.  Seek for new routes

Try to find new routs from your work to your home and vice-versa. Seek for different shops, you've never been to.
A movie-theater on the other side of the town.

4. Listen to new music

Even if you have thousands of songs on your iPod and you
think that you've heard everything I must tell you the bad news. We listen to 50-100 familiar tracks all the time. The
reason is the same: we adapted to them, and our brain doesn't need to waste resourses on them. There is couple
of thousands of radio stations in the world and millions of songs. So why not try something new?

5. Look for new acquaintances

Well, of course it is more comfortable to have few friends who you see every weekend to discuss football match or
movie. I'm not telling you should abandon you friends, but why don't you make a few new? Sometimes people we meet can change our interests or ever our lifestyle.

6.  Have kids
Children are instant source of chaos. They are changing everything every second. They ask questions you've never think of. Or if you're not ready to have kids try to get a dog. It will definitely bring a lot of new things into your life.

7. Buy a new perfume

If you have a favourite perfume that you use for years - it is time to change it. Smells have a lot of influence on our
brain. So try to change your perfume every time you buy it.

8. Learn foreign language

New words that are totally different from your native language are the best way to train your brain. Especially
when you go deeper into a language.

Our brain is arranged much more difficult, than it seems.
Those engram's can influence on everything. And if you
will train your brain and seek for something new every time
you'll never be that old guy that can't settle a timer on a
microwave  without grandchild's help.

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